India is regarded as among the world’s perspective superpowers. This potential is linked to a number of factors, the most important of which are the country’s demographic trends as well as its fast developing economy as well as military. With such a projected GDP growth rate of 5% in 2015, India has become the world’s fastest-growing economy (mid-year terms). Before it could be called a superpower, the country must solve several economic, social, and political issues, as well as be as prominent on the world scene as the US, China, as well as the former Soviet Union.
With several Eurasian and increasingly Afro-Asian sea-trade routes running through or adjacent to Indian territorial waters, India is located in the South Asian section of the Indian Ocean, a region with extraordinary potential for expansion inside the volume of transoceanic commerce. Despite being stressed, the subcontinent’s land and water resources are nevertheless able to support its huge population.
The central location of India, its magnificent resources, its teeming vast number of men, its successful trading harbours, as well as its reserve of military strength, providing an armed force which is always in a state of high efficiency as well as competent of someone being flung at minutes notice upon every juncture in Asia or Africa—all of these would be valuable assets.
Just on the west, India should have a powerful effect on Persia as well as Afghanistan’s fates; here on the north, this can veto any rival in Tibet; and then on the north-east, it may veto anyone rival in Pakistan. It has the ability to apply significant pressure on China, and this is one of Siam’s defenders of the country’s autonomy (Kingdom of Thailand). The British Empire’s worldwide influence was bolstered by its control over India.
India is working to create new mass rapid transit systems to supplant its current system, which would be deemed insufficient to meet current and future metropolitan needs. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Gurgaon, Jaipur, and Lucknow all have advanced metro rail systems in place.
Work on establishing a comparable public transportation system in Noida, Pune, Bhopal, Nagpur, Indore, Kanpur, as well as Ahmedabad is now underway or will begin soon. Indore is setting the pace by building a Rapid Transport System that includes world-class GPS-enabled low-floor buses. India is welcoming modernity as its economy, as well as technologies, flourish. The Indian rail network runs the length and width of the nation, totalling 63,140 kilometres. This is one of the world’s biggest and busiest rail networks, with over 9 billion passengers as well as 350 million tons of cargo transported yearly.
Its activities span twenty-seven states and three Union territories, as well as Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, which are all neighbours. Other public transportation systems, such as buses, however, sometimes fall short of the standards set in wealthy countries. India is on the verge of implementing high-speed rail across the country.